Amy Kinney, M.A.Did the dreaded Back-to-School shopping with my children today. Pencils, highlighters, and l... moreAmy Kinney, M.A.Did the dreaded Back-to-School shopping with my children today. Pencils, highlighters, and looseleaf paper all symbolize the end of summer! I gazed upon my children's grouchy faces and said, "Suck it up, li'l campers; unless someone dies, we are all ... moreDid the dreaded Back-to-School shopping with my children today. Pencils, highlighters, and looseleaf paper all symbolize the end of summer! I gazed upon my children's grouchy faces and said, "Suck it up, li'l campers; unless someone dies, we are all going back." less

Emma Fields commented on Julie Henderson's blog entry: @Anna: I think I have too, but not in the classroom. Just joking. Am I being too inappropriate? I guess this is a private social network for teachers, so I'm safe. :-)

As social media become nearly inescapable on college campuses, a pair of recently published studies supports what many professors already have concluded: Students using Facebook or text messaging during a lecture tend to do worse when quizzed later.
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What Should Colleges Teach?
By STANLEY FISH
A few years ago, when I was grading papers for a graduate literature course, I became alarmed at the inability of my students to write a clean English sentence. They could manage for about six words and then, ...

I have experienced a constant struggle balancing my teaching obligations and my personal life. When most people look at my work schedule, they see that I "get summers off," and they focus on the number of actual "contact hours" I have with my studen...

In recent years, I've been hearing education administrators refer to students as "customers." This analogy is fundamentally faulty because being a student is not the same as being a passive consumer. Forcing this analogy gives students permiss...

As social media become nearly inescapable on college campuses, a pair of recently published studies supports what many professors already have concluded: Students using Facebook or text messaging during a lecture tend to do worse when quizzed later.
By Scott Roberson,, AP
Most teachers r...